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Scope and Programme

The scientific program of the XVII Czech-Polish seminar was focused on:

Seminar Programme

Monday, May 22
16:00   Registration
19:30   Dinner
20:30–22:00   Poster session
Tuesday, May 23
8:00Registration
9:00Opening
9:10K. Roleder
Macroscopic electrostriction and piezoelectricity driven by the existence of polar regions
9:50P. Kuzel
Tunable structures based on strontium titanate for terahertz applications
10:30–11:00   Coffee break
11:00M. Kempa
Neutron scattering studies of PbTiO3 lattice dynamics
11:20T. Ostapchuk
Grain-size effect in BaTiO3 ceramics: study by far infrared spectroscopy
11:40V. Bovtun
Microwave dielectric response of some ferroelectrics and relaxors
12:00E. Buixaderas
Broad-band dielectric spectroscopy of tetragonal PLZT x/40/60
12:20I. Szafraniak
Characterization of perovskite nanopowders obtained by mechanochemical synthesis
12:50   Lunch
15:00S. Kamba
Far-infrared, THz and microwave dielectric properties of perovskite relaxor ferroelectrics
15:40A. Kania
Structural, dielectric and Raman scattering studies of (1-x) PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 - x PbTiO3 (0 <= x <= 0.38) single crystals
16:20–16:50   Coffee break
16:50J. Hlinka
Ferroelastic domain wall in BaTiO3 - type ferroelectrics: quantitative phenomenological model
17:30P. Marton
Numerical simulation of domain patterns in BaTiO3
18:00   Departure for dinner at Monastery Louka
Wednesday, May 24
9:00W. Kuczynski
Flexoelectric spontaneous polarization in chiral liquid crystals
9:40V. Novotna
Compounds with lactic acid units exhibiting TGB phases
10:00S. Urban
Pressure – temperature phase diagrams for long members of two homologous series of liquid crystals: nCB and nBT
10:20K. Fodor-Csorba
Electric field - induced giant birefringence in bent–core liquid crystals with carbonate end groups
10:40–11:10   Coffee break
11:10M. Ilavsky
Thermal and dielectric properties of LC polybutadiene-diols modified with thiol containing mesogenic group
11:30W. Schranz
Elastic behaviour of crystals at high pressure phase transitions
12:20   Lunch
INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMME
18:30   Dinner
19:30   Poster session
Thursday, May 25
9:00J. Dec
Strontium-barium niobate: from ferroelectrics to relaxors
9:40S. Miga
Time evolution of polar regions in SBNN single crystal
10:00E. Markiewicz
Application of piezoelectric gadolinium calcium oxoborate GdCa4O(BO3)3 crystal as temperature sensor
10:30–11:00   Coffee break (Poster cleanup)
11:00A. Molak
Properties of (BixNa1-x)(MnyNb1-y)O3 analysed within electric permittivity, conductivity, modulus electric permittivity, conductivity, modulus and derivative techniques approach
11:20A. Hek
Dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Betaine Arsenate crystal near the phase transition
11:40B. Fugiel
Transverse field effect in TGS ferroelectric
12:10   Lunch
15:00A. Pawlowski
Ferroelastic-superionic phase transition in M3H(XO4)2 crystals
15:40S. Waplak
Current oscillation in fast-proton conductors
16:00D. Trzupek
Dispersion and excitation of waves in a model of arterial system
17:00   Departure for wine cellar

Friday, May 26
9:00V. Janovec
Databases of ferroic phase transitions - source of information and examples of data mining
9:40Closing
10:00   Departure (bus for Prague)